National Real Bread Maker Week will return in 2011. If you'd like to get involved, please email us.
Is your kitchen cupboard home to one of Britain’s estimated 10 million unused bread machines?
If so, the first ever National Real Bread Maker Week is the time to dig it out and use it to bake Real Bread or pass it on to someone who will.
A bread machine allows anyone who might not otherwise bake at home to seize control and make genuinely fresh, genuinely good value Real Bread with ingredients of their choice.
As well as the online chat and virtual sharing networks helping to pass on bread machines, here are just some of the events and activities that took place out in the real world during National Real Bread Maker Week 2010.
Special offer Nationwide (online)
26th April - 9th May To celebrate National Real Bread Maker Week, Real Bread Campaign member Doves Farm is offering 10% off online purchases of the organic wholemeal flour.
“Use Your Loaf” Pop Up Café Goldsmiths Community Centre, Castillon Road, London, SE6 1QD
6th May 1-7pm The “Use Your Loaf” Pop Up Café invites visitors to taste some different breads, have a cup of tea and try their hand at bread making, either by hand or in a breadmaker. We are making bread in flower pots, pizzas, monster sandwiches and delicious Finnish plaits. There will be something for everyone and everyone is invited to “pop in” and join in the fun! No charge for entry or for making or tasting the breads - there is a small charge for other refreshments such as tea, coffee and cakes.
The Real Food Festival Earl's Court Exhibition Centre, London
7th - 9th May A festival within a festival, this year’s Real Food Festival will feature a trail of Real Breadcrumbs. As part of this, all weekend the Real Bread Campaign stand will be operating a bread machine swap shop - if you have a working machine you no longer want, bring it along and we'll pass it on to someone who does.
Staurday 8th May Local kids (12 and under) are invited to bring their home baked loaves along for judging by Andrew Whitley, who will pick the best loaves made by hand and in a machine. He will also be giving bread making tips to the kids.
8th & 9th May As part of the annual National Mills
Weekend open weekend, traditional wind and water mills around the
country will be inviting visitors to a variety of bread machine related
activities to celebrate using locally produced ingredients.
As we learn which mills will be participating in National Real Bread Maker Week, their details will appear below.
The Watermill Little Salkeld, Penrith, Cumbria. CA10 1NN
Saturday 8th May (11am) and Sunday 9th May (12pm) Free bread machine demos. Henk will be showing you how to get the best from The Watermill’s organic and biodynamic stoneground flours using a bread machine. The mill produces twelve different flours, most of which work with a machine, but, to get the best results, you may need to tweak your recipe a little. There’s no charge, but we can only fit in 10 people for each demonstration session, so please book in advance by phone or email. The machine baking cycle takes a couple of hours, so you will have time for a coffee, a tour of the mill, or a walk to Long Meg Stone Circle if you’re feeling energetic and it’s a nice sunny day !
Felin Ganol Llanrhystud, Ceredigion, SY23 5AL Wales
Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th May Quite a few of our customers use our flour in their bread machines so we thought this would be an ideal opportunity get together informally to share tips, recipes, and our bread! around lunchtime on each day (between milling demonstrations). Hopefully the weather will be good and we can have a picnic by the mill wheel.
Cranbrook Union Windmill The Hill, Cranbrook, Kent, TN17 3AH
Sunday 9th May Cranbrook Union Windmill will be hosting a Flour Show for home bakers. Entries are invited in a number of categories for adults and kids, including both hand and machine baked loaves. Entries to be delivered to the Russell Building (behind the Windmill ) with 50p entry fee (except for under 12s) from 11:00am till noon. Judging will start at 1:00pm. Public Viewing from 2:30pm.
Sunday 9th May As part of their packed National Mills Weekend schedule, Mill green is invited anyone with an unloved bread machine to bring it along to pass or sell to a good home. Activities also include a home made bread competition, watching a working water mill in action, a family picnic and more traditional crafts.
For more information or to download the baking competiton entry form (to be returned by 5th May) visit www.welhat.gov.uk/museum
or email museum@welhat.gov.uk
Sharpham Park Sharpham Park Shop, Kilver Court, Shepton Mallet
Sunday 9th May Sharpham Park are giving away a free 1kg bag of their Organic Spelt flour to anyone that enters the Bread Machine Baking Competition that will be judged at the Feastival Local Producers Market on Sunday 9th May. Bread, pizzas, cakes – all entries accepted and the judging will be
carried out by the experts from Sharpham Park at 12pm. The prize will
be a delicious Sharpham Park hamper, annual garden membership to Kilver
Court Gardens and their recipe featuring on the brand new Sharpham Park
website which is due to be launched that week.
Just pick up your entry form from the Sharpham Park Shop of from www.kilvercourt.com
Want to get hold or rid of a bread machine? During National Real Bread Maker Week, here are a few organisations that will help you to pass it on:
Freecycle Freecycle helps people who have things they no longer need to give them away to people who do need them and in the process keeps many useful items from filling up our landfill sites. To request or offer a bread maker go to www.freecycle.org and join your local group.
Freegle Freegle is an email list hosted on Yahoo! Groups that allows you to give stuff away when you need to get rid of it but don’t want to throw it in the bin. Or save something from landfill by asking for it; perhaps someone has just what you need that they were about to throw away. To see how you can pick up or pass on a bread machine, visit www.ilovefreegle.org
Let's All Share To find
bread machines being offered, simply type 'breadmakers' into the search
bar and they will be displayed on a map so you can see the breadmaker
nearest to you. If you want to give away or rent out your breadmaker,
you just need to set the rules about renting or giving, delivery or
collection as required and publish it to the breadmakers category. www.letsallshare.com
ooffoo On ooffoo you can reuse, recycle, swap, sell, give away, write & blog, vote, debate & discuss their latest hot topic, find recipes & useful eco tips and much more. To add a free classified ad for a machine you want to pass on, visit www.ooffoo.com
If you would like to get your organisation involved in finding new homes for second-hand bread machines, please let us know.
Click here for some more ideas on how to pass it on.
We are working on finding and creating recipes but really want this to be an opportunity for home bakers to share their recipes and tips with others around the country.
if you have your own recipe, please add it to the wall in the National Real Bread Maker group on Facebook. We're especially keen on hearing from anyone who's had success at making genuine sourdough in a bread machine.